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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Arcade Pennants from Gremlins 1984

A relatively short lived kind of vexilloid is in the background that advertises an electronic game cart arcade. Just as penny arcades had their time in history so did the quarter 25 cent arcades of the 1980s.

Video game carts appear in the film during the bar scene and after some of the Christmas gifts are opened. It almost impossible to make out the games in the bar. But the 1980s home version of Donkey Kong can be seen with Stripe playing while his wing men fuzzy buds are hanging on.

After breaking the most deadly rule of feeding the Mogwai after midnight - they turn into unruly intelligent mischievous monsters. Here they are playing the original Star Wars arcade game.